Sour Grapes?

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    freezing_tyke, Sep 20, 2014
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    Brian Clough was a fantastic manager, but the bloke took bungs, many times, and it was only his reputation that saved him, not just from an FA inquiry, but a gaol sentence.
     
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    I know a player who played for him and said he was a wrong one in transfer dealings. At the other end of the spectrum another manager he played for was a straight as a die, Jack Charlton.
    All Allegedly of course.
     
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    And yet it's Nigel Clough that did his bidding of O'Grady through the media.
     
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    Am I missing something, how do you get a dig at Mansford from that?
     
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    "I think the final straw would have been that there are ex-agents getting involved running clubs"
     
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    I'd be shocked if fifty percent of the managers in the football league were not taking bungs on transfers. The fact that everything can be 'withheld' and shrouded goes against any idea of honesty or transparency.
     
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